On 7/2/05, Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have an x86-64 system and sometimes need to find out if a library or > executable is built for 32-bit or 64-bit execution. On FC3, > file foo.so > would produce a message that would do the job, like this: > $ file usr/lib*/libssl3.so > /usr/lib/libssl3.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped > /usr/lib64/libssl3.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), stripped > A similar command on FC4 produces something like this: > $ file /usr/lib*/libssl3.so > /usr/lib/libssl3.so: data, stripped > /usr/lib64/libssl3.so: data, stripped > which is not very useful. > > What's the best thing to do: Copy FC3 /etc/magic into FC4? Install the > latest file utility from the GNU fileutils? > > I have submitted this as a bug to Red Hat Bugzilla. > > jon Strange, works-for-me: $ file /usr/lib*/libssl3.so /usr/lib64/libssl3.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), stripped /usr/lib/libssl3.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped $ file --version file-4.13 magic file from /usr/share/file/magic FC4 x86_64 running the latest FC kernel. Jonathan Nice name by-the-way :).
